Dispensing container or carton



April 1 1944- E. w. KERKLAND ET AL 2, 4

DISPENSING CONTAINER 0H CARTON Filed Nov. 12, 1942 Patented A r. 11, 1944 .DISPENSING CONTAINER OB, CART-ON Edward W. Kirkland and Herman 'E. Otto, Buffalo, N. Y., assignors'to "Cooper Paper Box Corporation, Buffalo, N. Y., a corporation of New York ApplicationQNovember 12, 1942, Serial No. 465,336

6 Claims.

This invention relates generally to paper or cardboard containers, but more particularly to a dispensing carton or container for the packaging of freely flowing materials, such as tooth powder and the like.

One of its objects is to provide a container of this character which is simple and inexpensive in construction, and which is so designed as to provide in one of its foldable end walls or flaps an adjustable valve-like member for Controlling the dispensing of the container contents.

Another object of the invention is to provide a dispensing carton having overlapping end closure flaps, certain of which have registering perforations therein, while another of such flaps has a relatively movable closure element mounted thereon for ready adjustment to a sealing or dispensing position.

Other features of the invention reside in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the dispensing carton embodying our invention. Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective View, partly in section, of the dispensing end of the carton, showing the valve or closure member in its open position. Figure 3 is a similar perspective view showing the valve-bearing flap and the adjoining flaps extended. Figure 4 is an enlarged horizontal section taken substantially in the plane of line 4-4, Figure 1. Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary cross section taken on line 55, Figure 1. Figure 6 is a plan view of the blank from which the carton is made.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The dispensing carton is preferably made of cardboard or like material and may be made of various shapes and sizes to meet the requirements of the trade in the marketing of such materials as talcum powder, tooth powder, etc. In the form shown in the drawing, the carton is rectangular in shape and is formed from a single ton-contents against discharge and to readily open .or unseal the contents for use when desired. For this purpose, the foldableend walls l5, l6 and I8 are each providedwith .a discharge port or perforation I9 so-located thatin the folded condition of the carton theseper-forations register with each other and communicate with the interior of the carton. The end wall H, which is located outermost in the folded condition of the carton, constitutes the discharge or dispensing controlling element of the carton and has mounted thereon for movement relative thereto a valvelike member 20 which in one position is adapted to close or cover the perforations I9 to seal the carton, and which in another position is adapted to uncover such perforations to dispense the contents from the carton. By preference, the end wall I! includes a foldable section or extension 2! projecting endwise therefrom in coextensive relation with the companion side wall l3 and is adapted to be folded along the fold line 22 against the underside of said end wall H to thereby provide a sheath or pocket for receiving and supporting the valve-like member 20. The latter is pivoted at 23 between the resulting sectional end wall H, M and such sections have discharge ports or perforations 24 therein which, in the folded position of the sections, register with each other and with the perforations IS in the remaining top end walls. The valve member is so shaped as to cover the discharge ports in one position thereof and to uncover the same in its other position.

Projecting from the edge of the valve-like member 20 is a finger-tab 25 and intersecting the fold line of the wall-sections l1 and 2| is a longi tudinal slot 26 through which this tab extends and by which the valve member may be easily moved to and from its open dispensing position. The ends of this slot predetermine and limit the movements of the valve member into and out of registering alinement with the discharge ports I!) and 24.

We claim as our invention:

l. A container of the character described, comprising a cardboard body having overlapping end closure flaps, certain of said flaps having registering perforations therein and the outermost flap having a dispensing port in alining relation with said perforations for the emission of the container-contents, said outermost flap including two coextensive sections folded in overlaying relation, and a valve-like member movably mounted between said flap-sections for controlling said dispensing port 2. A container of the character described, comprising a cardboard body having overlapping end closure flaps containing registering perforations for the discharge of the container-contents, one of said flaps including two coextensive sections folded in overlying relation, and a valvelike member disposed between said flap-sections for movement relative thereto to and from a dispending position relative to the discharge perforations.

3. A container of the character described, comprising a cardboard body having overlapping end closure flaps containing registering perforations for the discharge of the container-contents, one of said flaps including two coextensive sections folded in overlying relation, and a valve-like member pivotally mounted between said flapsections and having a finger-tab thereon for moving it to and from a dispensing position relative to the discharge perforations.

4. A container of the character described, comprising a cardboard body having overlapping end closure flaps containing registering perforations for the discharge of the container-contents, one of said flaps including two sections folded in overlying relation and having a slot in the fold thereof, and a valve-like member disposed between said fiap-sections for movement relative thereto to and from a dispensing position relative to the discharge perforations and having a finger-tab thereon extending through said slot.

5. A container of the character described, comprising a cardboard body having overlapping end closure flaps containing registering perforations for the discharge of the container-contents, one of said flaps having an extension thereon folded thereunder and having a perforation therein alined with that of such flap, the fold between the latter and its extension having a slot therein, and a disk pivotally mounted between said flap and extension for movement to and from a perforation-closing position and having a finger-tab projecting from its periphery through said foldslot.

6. A container-blank, comprising a sheet of cardboard scored and slit to provide foldable side walls and top and bottom end walls, the top end walls having perforations therein adapted to be alined in the folded condition of such walls, one of such end walls having a foldable extension containing a perforation adapted to register with that of such wall when folded and having a slot in the fold thereof.

EDWARD W. KIRKLAND, HERMAN E. OTTO. 

